The Orangutan Project
Indonesia (Borneo & Sumatra) · 0.50°S · 102.00°E
Protecting wild orangutans and the rainforests they depend on, one secure forest at a time.
About The Orangutan Project
The Orangutan Project is a conservation organisation working to save wild orangutans and the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra from extinction.
Orangutans are among our closest relatives, yet they are being pushed towards extinction as their forest homes are cleared for logging, plantations and farmland. Mothers are killed and infants taken for the illegal pet trade, while shrinking habitat brings the great apes into ever more dangerous contact with people. All surviving species are now critically endangered.
Founded in 1998 by orangutan expert Leif Cocks, The Orangutan Project takes a flexible, whatever-it-takes approach in which the organisation's own interests always come second to the best outcome for the animals. It protects and secures forest habitat, funds rescue and rehabilitation, and backs a network of trusted partners working directly on the ground in Indonesia.
Through programmes spanning land acquisition, anti-poaching and patrol work, human-orangutan conflict response and the release of rescued apes back into the wild, the charity supports some of the most important rainforest landscapes left in the region. Over its history it has channelled tens of millions of dollars into orangutan conservation across Borneo and Sumatra.
Protecting orangutans also safeguards entire ecosystems and the countless species that share them. Support helps fund care centres, rescue teams and the forest patrols that keep critically endangered populations, including the rare Tapanuli orangutan, alive.
Habitat protection
Securing and patrolling critical rainforest so wild orangutan populations have safe, lasting homes.
Rescue and rehabilitation care centres
Funding centres that nurse orphaned and displaced orangutans back to health and independence.
Release to the wild
Returning rehabilitated orangutans to protected forest and monitoring them long after release.
Forests for People
Backing indigenous communities as partners in guarding forests and the wildlife within them.
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